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Following Gravity [Inscribed, Review Copy]
by APPLEWHITE, James
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1980. First Edition. First Printing, review copy, with publisher's slip laid in. Octavo (23.5cm); orange cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; [xiv],[2],3-67,[7]pp; illus. Inscribed on title page, "For Sam Baker / with all good wishes. / James Applewhite". Lightly sunned edges, else Fine. Dustwrapper has sunning to spine panel and edges; Fine. Applewhite's first collection of verse, selected by Donald Justice for first place in the 1979 AWP Award Series.... Read More
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Chronic Schizophrenia: Explorations in Theory and Treatment
by APPLEBY, Lawrence et al., eds.; Karl Menninger, foreword
Glencoe, IL: Free Press, [1960]. First Edition. Octavo (21.75cm.); publisher's two-toned cloth in blue price-clipped dust jacket; xv,[1],368pp. Light chipping to jacket extremities, small loss at spine crown, white spine lettering toned, else Fine in Very Good jacket.
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The Oranging of America and Other Stories [Inscribed]
by APPLE, Max
New York: Grossman Publishers, 1976. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); orange paper and navy blue cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in orange on spine; dustjacket; viii,152pp. Inscribed to a noted book representative on the front endpaper: For Adena Siegel / Best regards / Max Apple / Feb.14, 1984." Heel a little dusty, upper corners bumped (though still sharp); contents clean; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $7.95), gently spine-sunned and lightly edgeworn, with some corresponding mild wrinkling to... Read More
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The Oranging of America and Other Stories
by APPLE, Max
New York: Grossman Publishers, 1976. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (21cm). Orange paper and navy blue cloth-covered boards, titled in orange on spine; dustjacket; viii,152pp. Pushed at spine ends, light foxing to top edge, else Near Fine. Jacket unclipped (priced $7.95), lightly rubbed and spine-sunned, minor discoration to front flap, else Very Good or better. The author's first collection of short fiction, gathering ten stories. [62873].
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History of the Fifth Massachusetts Battery. Organized October 3, 1861. Mustered Out June 12, 1865
by APPLETON, Nathan (et al, eds)
Baltimore: Butternut & Blue, 1996. Reprint. Octavo. Pictorial cloth; xxi,991pp. Fine. Photographic facsimile reprint of the 1902 Boston edition, with a new introduction by Kenneth R. Dombroski. NEVINS I:129.
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Systematic Lexicography
by APRESJAN, Juri; Kevin Windle (trans.)
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (24cm). Black cloth titled in gilt, in grey dust jacket; xviii,304pp. Bookplate of James G. Mead to front pastedown. Owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Lightly pushed at spine ends, with a few small pencil marks to front free endpaper, else Near Fine. Jacket rubbed at edges with small scuff to front panel, else Very Good.
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A Reply to the Review of Dr. Wyatt's Sermon and Mr. Spark's Letters on the Protestant Episcopal Church, which originally appeared in the Christian Disciple at Boston, and subsequently, in a separate form at Baltimore: in which it is attempted to vindicate the Church from the charges of that review
by A PROTESTANT EPISCOPALIAN [George Weller, attr.]
Boston: R.P. & C. Williams, 1821. First Edition. Octavo (ca. 23cm.); disbound; 168pp. Light foxing throughout, contemporary ownership signature at head of title page (serving as upper cover), else Very Good overall. SABIN 102563; SHOEMAKER 6613.
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Gli Studi di Storia e di Diritto Contemporaneo
by AQUARONE, Alberto et al, eds
[Milano]: Edizioni di Comunità, [1968]. First Edition. 12mo (18cm.); publisher's decorative card wrappers; 158pp. Light wear, spine a bit creased, else Very Good or better. Rapporti sulle Scienze Sociali no. 1. Text entirely in Italian.
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Alla Ricerca dell'Italia Liberale
by AQUARONE, Alberto
Napoli: Guida Editori, [1972]. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's card wrappers, French flaps; 356pp. Light shelf wear, spine and rear cover a bit toned, else Very Good and sound. Published as no. 10 in the series Esperienze. Text entirely in Italian.
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France Écoute
by [ARAGON, Louis]
Alger: Revue Fontaine, [1944]. Octavo (14.5cm x 11cm); small stapled booklet; [28]pp; illus. Text in French. Lightly tanned with modest shelf-soil; Very Good. Collection of five poems includes "Le Jour se Leve sur la Fontaine des Innocents", "Le Medecin de Villeneuve", and "France Ecoute". [87029].
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Biodiversity and Evolution
by ARAI, Ryoichi; Masahiro Kato; Yoshiichi Doi (eds.)
Tokyo: National Science Museum Foundation, 1995. Octavo (25.5cm). White glazed paper; x,336pp; in-text black and white illus. Former owner's name to f.f.e.p. Lightly rubbed and cocked, else clean and sound: Very Good.
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El trapecista
by ARAUJO, Fernando
Bogotá: Editorial Planeta, 2008. First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers; 388pp. Mild wear; Very Good or better. Memoir of captivity by a Colombian official kidnapped and held captive by FARC rebels from 2000 to 2006. Text entirely in Spanish.
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Monographs and Papers in Maya Archaeology
by [ARCHEOLOGY] BULLARD, William R. [Ed]; POLLOCK, H.E.D.; TOURTELLOT, Gair; et al.
Cambridge, MA: Peabody Museum, 1970. First American Edition. Quarto. 27cm. Publisher's olive greeen card wraps, titled and decorated in dark green and brown to the spne and front panel. [ix]; 502pp. Sharp and clean, a little sunned to the spine panel; internally clean and fresh, bookplate to half title, illustrated throughout. A very good copy indeed of an unwieldy publication. From the library of Nathanie Tarn, noted poet, translator, and professor of anthropology with a special interest in... Read More
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Hellenistic Economies
by ARCHIBALD, Zofia (et al), ed
London: Routledge, 2001. First Edition. Octavo. Black cloth hardcover; dustjacket; xvi,400pp; illus. Fine, apparently unread copy in a crisp, unworn dustwrapper. A new-appearing copy. Edited volume of essays on the economic history of ancient Greece, with contributions by John K. Davies, Amos Kloner, Makis Aperghis, others. [82309].
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Por Una Cuba Negra: Literatura, Raza, y Modernidad en el Siglo XIX
by ARCIA, Alberto Abreu
N.p. [Madrid]: Hypermedia Ediciones, 2017. First Edition. Octavo. Glossy card wrappers (softcover); 419pp; includes bibliography. Some unobtrusive pencil underlining to first ca. 20pp, else a tight, fine copy. Text entirely in Spanish.
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Latin America: A Cultural History
by ARCINIEGAS, Germán (text); MACLEAN, Joan (translation)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo; brick red cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and in blind to front cover; red topstain; dustjacket; xxviii,594,xliii,[3]pp; illus. Slight lean, base of spine gently nudged, else Near Fine and clean throughout. Dustjacket priced $10.00, clipped at lower right corner of front flap; mild wear and dustiness to extremities; Near Fine. A panoramic history, starting just before the Conquest, examining the Aztec, Maya, and Inca... Read More
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Narrative of The Arctic Land Expedition, to the Mouth of The Great Fish River, and along the shores of The Arctic Ocean, in the years 1833, 1834, and 1835
by [ARCTIC] BACK, Captain George
Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle, 1970. First Thus. Octavo. 19.5cm. Publisher's dark blue cloth titled in gilt and black to spine. Dustjacket. [xxv]; 663pp. Strong and bright, very light wear to extremities; internally clean and fresh, illustrated throughout; in a strong, clean dustjacket with some light marginal creasing. A very good copy indeed. A facsimile edition of the 1836 first edition, faithfully and rather attractively reproduced by the Tuttle Co. who seem to have had extensive interests... Read More
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Mit Flugzeug, Faltboot und Filmkamera in den Eisfjorden Grönlands. Ein Bericht über die Universal Dr. Fanck Grönlandsexpedition
by [ARCTIC EXPLORATION - GREENLAND] SORGE, Ernst
Berlin: Drei Masken Verlag, 1933. First Edition. Octavo. Gray cloth boards, stamped in blue and red on spine and front cover; 184pp; illus; appendices. Light overall soil and wear; foxing to text block edges; Very Good, lacking the jacket. Prize label inside front cover, awarded by ther Gewerbeschule Lörrach to Ernst Roser, April 1935. Account of a filmmaking expedition to Greenland that resulted in the American-German co-production S.O.S. Eisberg (American title: S.O.S. Iceberg), released in 1934 and starring Leni... Read More
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The Voyage of the Jeannette. The Ship and Ice Journals of George W. De Long, Lieutenant-Commander U.S.N. and Commander of the Polar Expedition of 1879-1881
by [ARCTIC] DE LONG, George W; Emma De Long, ed
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1884. First Edition. First printing. Two large octavo volumes (24cm). Publisher's pictorial brown pebbled cloth; xii,[1]-440; xxii,[441]-911pp. Volume I with folding map in rear pocket; inserted folding circumpolar map; steel-engraved frontispiece and seven unnumbered leaves of plates (on wood and steel); Volume Il with steel-engraved frontispiece, seven inserted leaves of wood-engraved plates; numerous illustrations, maps, and plans in-text. Private ownership markings, including ink name stamps to endpapers and text block edges; printed bookplate of a John... Read More
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A Yacht Voyage. Letters from High Latitudes: being some account of a voyage, in 1856, in the schooner yacht "Foam," to Iceland, Jan Mayen, and Spitzbergen
by [ARCTIC EXPLORATION] DUFFERIN, Lord [Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood]
New York: R. Worthington, 1878. Third Edition. Octavo (21cm). Gilt-pictorial blue cloth; xii,268,[2]pp; illus. Mildly rubbed at extremities, with some fading and flaking to cloth at crown of spine; 20th-c. private ownership stamp to endpapers and a few page margins; overall a tight, Good or better copy. Given Worthington's history of piracy, this is likely an unauthorized American printing from the third British edition. Of a higher quality than many of Worthington's titles, however, and a not... Read More
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Left-Handed Liberty. A Play About Magna Carta
by ARDEN, John
London: Methuen, 1965. First Edition. First printing (cloth issue). 12mo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 157pp. A fine unmarked copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced 15s net at base of front wrapper), lightly rubbed and with a short (
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Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain
by ARDIZZONE, Edward
New York: Henry Z. Walck, Inc, 1955. Second Edition. Quarto (26cm.); light red publisher's cloth in color pictorial dustwrapper; [48pp]. Dustwrapper toned, with intermittent soiling and chipping to extremities; tear along rear spine hinge; inner panels price-clipped; interior text clean, sound. Near Fine in VG+ dustwrapper. Author and illustrator Edward Ardizzone began his Tim series in 1935 with this volume, completely redesigned and redrawn for this 1955 second edition. Little Tim is a boy who wants to be... Read More
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Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman
by ARENDT, Hannah (text); WINSTON, Richard and Clara (translation)
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm); white cloth, with titles stamped in red and green on spine; dustjacket; xx,236pp. Subtle lean, else Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $7.95). with light wear to extremities, and some gentle sunning to the red spine lettering. Detailed biography of Rahel Levin Varnhagen, daughter of a German-Jewish merchant of precious stones, who wielded significant influence on the Romantic movement in Germany.
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NEW POETRY FROM CALIFORNIA
by Arguelles, Ivan; Jack Foley
Berkeley: Pantograph Press, 1998. First Edition. Pictorial wraps; 4to. 127 pp. Neeli Cherkovski preface; linocuts by Jose Galindo. Signed by the prolific Oakland/Berkeley poet Jack Foley to another poet, one associated with New Formalism. An about very good copy, worn at the foot of the spine, rubbed.
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Itzam Na: Novela
by ARIAS, Arturo
[Habana: Casa de las Américas, 1981]. First Edition. 12mo (19cm.); publisher's card wrappers in pictorial dust jacket; 297pp. Light shelf wear to jacket and wrapper extremities, tiny soil spot at bottom textblock edge not bleeding into textblock, else Very Good or better. The Guatemalan author's first novel.
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